Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
Edward AlbeeI don't like the climate in which writers have to work in the USA and I think it's my responsibility to talk about it.
Edward AlbeeEvery writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels about his work.
Edward AlbeeIf you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
Edward AlbeeI am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Edward AlbeeWhen I was fifteen I wrote seven hundred pages of an incredibly bad novel - it's a very funny book I still like a lot. Then, when I was nineteen I wrote a couple hundred pages of another novel, which wasn't very good either. I was still determined to be a writer. And since I was a writer, and here I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.
Edward Albee